Shut down Yarl’s Wood! On Friday 7th December, Christine N was released from Yarl’s Wood detention centre. Her release is a tremendous victory. Hundreds of women in Yarl’s Wood detention centre protested to stop the brutal attempt to deport Christine on the 15th October. Many, many people took action against the attempted deportation, and the fight [...]

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. The Winter Leadership Project The Winter Leadership Project Internship (WLP) is an invaluable youth leadership opportunity for young scholars and activists (middle school through college) sponsored by the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant [...]

You all took action to prevent Edy’s deportation; thousands signed petitions, wrote letters & articles, blogged, demonstrated and spread the word. His case became famous – a cause for people fighting to reverse the racism, homophobia and hypocrisy of an immigration system that has been prepared to deport so many to pain and death. Edy was talked [...]

Gay Tanzanian Activist & Refugee, Edy Cosmas, on Brink of Securing Asylum We are very close to securing Edy refugee status in Britain as a gay Tanzanian. Edy, a member of Movement for Justice, has been a public leader in the struggle for equality and respect for lesbian, gay and transgender refugees, exposing the persecution of gay [...]